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Jrockwar

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    Fitness instructor just casually smoking at the gym

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  • Yeah she sounds like the particular brand of idiot that we have in the UK. I fortunately don't see that many of those... but still enough to find that sort of attitude recognisable.

  • Straight men don’t have enough friends—could gay men be the cure?

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  • In my experience, the more straight a person is, the dumber they are about anything computer, broadly speaking.

    Wow, really hot take here. Who people have sex with has nothing to do with their capabilities or intellect. That's just as bad as staying "the gayer someone is, the worse they are at sports, broadly speaking".

    The rest I agree, as someone who works in the field yes, many of us are LGBTQ+ folks, but still not a majority. Which still results in people like me meeting, and engaging with more straight men than gay peeps.

  • Straight men don’t have enough friends—could gay men be the cure?

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  • I have far more straight than gay friends. I think it is purely because of my hobbies. I like cars, computers, and a bunch of these things that someone once decreed are "heteronormatively manly" and as a result, my friends happen to be straight.

    I couldn't care less who they have sex with, because I don't choose friends based on what they do in bed.

  • Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

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  • Imagine what we could have achieved globally if we had spent all that money on a different cause.

    We could have managed to establish a colony on Mars, or perhaps we could have even finished developing Star Citizen.

  • When not even the meds allow you to will your brain into doing work 💀

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  • I love my job (and I would say to an atypical amount), and I'm on meds... But this doesn't change the fact that some days you just don't have the energy or brainpower to do anything - especially if your job requires deep thought and concentration.

    It's taken me a good while to learn not to feel guilty about this, and also not to take it as a sign of me not liking my job.

  • ByteDance AI IDE Trae telemetry continues even after opt-out

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  • To be fair, if anyone is surprised after the two red flags that are "ByteDance" and "AI", it's on them.

  • US and EU reach trade deal to avoid tariffs

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  • That was true 20 years ago, but Ford has been moving more and more towards a global strategy.

    The Ford Escape, Explorer, Ranger, Focus, Mustang, Mach-E, are available in both US and Europe, and I think now even the F-150 and Bronco have made it into Europe. Plus the Transit commercial range.

    So no, they're not quite separate anymore. Some models get developed in Europe (Focus, Escape), some in the US (Mustang, Ranger) but the general goal is to sell across the Atlantic.

  • 🤯 Life Hack Alert

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  • I have a similar view. Plant things that are fun. It is a hobby and it needs to be that. Why bother planting potatoes when they take up a good amount of space and they're cheap?

    I plant chives as well, rocket because I love it, weird varieties of chillies, and I'm thinking of adding also other herbs that I can't get easily or that are a faff to get. Coriander is a good example, as I have to get a bag whenever I have to use a tiny bit and the rest goes to waste.

    Hobby farming is fun and a great way to get you (and the family) to eat more veggies. Subsistence farming is just painful.

  • What are your stories like?

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  • I've just had to send this to a friend who always complains (jokingly, of course) about how I do exactly this.

  • OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round

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  • When they finally crash and burn (or sure, when they develop an AGI 🙄) this has potential to be an incredibly dramatic biopic. I hope it gets a good director.

  • A very interesting magpie.

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  • TIL! I saw the photo and immediately went to wikipedia to confirm that. It looks clearly like a corvid in this photo.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • 🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

  • ADHD and Caffeine

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  • That's quite frequent. My Not-a-doctor, simplified understanding is:

    Caffeine doesn't target processes related to dopamine but it's a stimulant. Outside of hyperfocus mode, ADHD brains are constantly understimulated because the lack of dopamine makes things not feel engaging and interesting. This is why our thoughts race, our brain is struggling to find ALL THE THINGS (thoughts, hobbies, worries, plans, memories) that might give it the stimulation it needs.

    Since coffee is a stimulant, the brain gets what it's looking for and doesn't need to race through all the possible thoughts, it's happy. The two main problems are:

    • Coffee doesn't have a controlled release or amount of caffeine, so the effects can be at points unpredictable (peaks, crashes, jitteriness, sudden releases).
    • Since it doesn't affect dopamine production/intake/etc, it doesn't help with the "uuuughhhh I can't be bothered to do this" that happens when the brain can't see/understand there is a reward.

  • Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?

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  • My fiancé has combined type nominally, but other than racing thoughts and some stimming, he's definitely the quiet type. I would say that's probably the case for many (most even?) AuDHD people, as autism doesn't usually go hand in hand with the endless social battery that the ADHD stereotype portrays.

  • Should Humanity Continue? Glenn Reacts to Thiel Interview [20:56 | JUL 05 2025 | Glenn Greenwald]

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  • So the topics discussed are sci-fi, and politics. Not technology then.

  • Should Humanity Continue? Glenn Reacts to Thiel Interview [20:56 | JUL 05 2025 | Glenn Greenwald]

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  • Who's "Glenn" and why does he belong in "Technology"? Is he a robot?

    What does this post about people ramblings have to do with Technology?

  • New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece

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  • I love how rich people in particular love proposing that people have more kids while simultaneously ignoring that people can't afford to have kids.

    I can tell you many couples with 2, 1 or even no kids that would have 3, 5 instead if that was something vaguely realistic financially speaking.

    Of course you can always compromise and say "I'll have 3 kids but they won't have the chance to go to university, etc." which morally... Sucks. The world is complicated enough to bring someone into it without giving them good chances at succeeding.

  • Stop Killing Games - EU Initiative 1 MILLION ACHIEVED! + More signatures needed

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  • Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it's better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.

  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • I don't think it's only men either, but it's worth considering the implications and potential causes for what is being said here.

    We have had not decades but centuries of macho culture, where mental health is a taboo for men because "I strong, me no cry" and we know that mental health struggles go underreported on men. This is just adding more evidence to a symptom that we already know, of a society that hasn't been able to course correct because it's too set in tradition to allow those who need help to seek it without feeling like garbage.

    While I'm not saying this is a problem exclusive to men, I think the causes and effects on women and men are rather different. We've now known for a while that women with mental health issues or disorders tend to go undiagnosed (even more so than unreported). The case of autism is particularly blatant, as women only started to get diagnosed in a meaningful proportion in the 80s (despite autism not being sex- or gender-driven). https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/identity/autistic-women-and-girls

    Similarly, that underdiagnosing came from the stereotyping of gender roles and the fact that being quiet and pretty equated being "feminine", which is "good", so can't be autistic, because autistic is bad.